In this Lessons episode, explore how cultivating habits and mental models can serve as powerful tools for success.

Discover why iteration often outperforms the pursuit of pure originality,

understand how adopting an apprentice mentality fosters growth and resilience,

and uncover how endurance and mindset shape the ability to navigate setbacks and achieve lasting results.

And let's break down some of the lessons that you've learned over your career that you speak about in this book.

And there's, there's a few, like, there's, I can't remember, there's a, what, there's 15 different chapters and there's a whole, and there's there's a few that like there's i can't remember there's a what

there's 15 different chapters and there's a whole and there's like a lesson per chapter um so let's

you know for the value of people listening pick your favorite ones that you want to that you want to speak on

i don't know uh which ones you'd like to touch on but i'm sure there's a few favorites that you love

um and we can go into those and unpack what those are and how those can help you succeed. Yeah, totally. So there's 15 power-ups in the book. And power-ups to me are, again, like I mentioned, they're either habits that you cultivate or mental models, such as understanding things like second-order consequences and things like that. There are different that you can go around collecting, just like you would in the gaming world. Now, I talk about 15 in the book, but it's just the very beginning. There's a lot more than 15 power-ups in the world, and you have to, there's positive power-ups and there's negative power-ups, right? If you eat too much fast food, then you end up, you know, your body goes in a different direction,

right? And so one of the chapters is titled Thevery. And I think there's a, there's a lot of

cognitive dissonance around it because us as human beings, we like to think, I'm original, right?

We hold this thing to be very sacred. And I think it's important to understand that

even Apple, the most valuable company in the world, you know, when Steve Jobs came out with a mouse

and the graphical user interface, guess who he stole it from? He stole it from Xerox, right? And so even him,

he said in life, everything is just a remix. And when you think about SpaceX and Elon Musk's rockets coming back to Earth, the rocket

design is still fundamentally the same foundational design as from the 50s or the 60s, right?

The big difference is they come back to Earth.

And so, you know, Picasso himself has said that, you know, everything in life,

I mean, great artists steal, right? And so it's like, oh my God, I don't want to steal. I don't want to be a thief. But like reality is those of you listening to this podcast right now, you're trying to get at least one nugget from it and you're trying to apply it to your life. And so life is just, you're going around collecting all these nuggets and then maybe you're making a 10 to 30% iteration

right like that iteration for bringing the rocket back to Earth, that's a massive iteration, right? It's not easy to do by any means, but he had to combine, you know, Elon and his entire team had to think about, okay, you know, how, what are all the dynamics that are at play and how can we make this work, right?'s a game within itself there um so my point is you know i think um the the sooner people let go of the pressure

of having to be completely original the easier it's going to be for people to kind of move on and make

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